Bristol, Jun 30 (PTI) A assured India will goal to capitalise on opener Smriti Mandhana’s elegant kind and hope for skipper Harmanpreet Kaur’s availability to attain one other huge win when the second Ladies’s T20I in opposition to England is performed right here on Tuesday.
Mandhana’s maiden T20I century within the opening sport at Nottingham guided India to an enormous 97-run win, and the possible presence of skipper Harmanpreet — who was rested for the primary sport as a precautionary measure following a head harm sustained throughout a warm-up match — for the second sport would solely add to the hosts’ worries.
Mandhana’s stroke-filled century would have rung alarm bells within the English camp because it tries to seek out solutions to the dramatic batting collapse it suffered whereas chasing a steep 210-run complete.
It was a day when Mandhana’s entertaining innings introduced the hosts underneath large stress, which was later exploited by the Indian bowlers.
India struck twice early and the sluggish bowler, particularly left-arm spinner Shree Charani who grabbed 4 wickets in her maiden T20I, full the demolition job.
Mandhana, who led the T20I run-scoring charts final 12 months, appeared to have picked up from the place she had left off, smashing all of the English bowlers with impunity.
Although the left-handed batter stated after the match that the T20I format wasn’t her forte, it was an announcement the cricket specialists would take with a pinch of salt.
The India vice-captain’s power-hitting was on full show as she collected most of her boundaries on the off-side, whereas her three maximums got here on the on-side.
The lengthy camp in Bengaluru adopted by their early arrival in England and a few tour matches appear to have helped the Indian gamers get into the rhythm of the shortest format as they confirmed no indicators of rustiness in Nottingham.
India seemed like a well-knit unit regardless of lacking their premier seamers, Renuka Singh Thakur and Pooja Vastrakar, who’re injured.
Harleen Deol at No. 3 seemed the proper name as she cast a 94-run stand for the second wicket with Mandhana to arrange the platform for an enormous complete.
Whereas the bilateral white-ball sequence might not have instant implications, it should definitely give the younger Indian gamers the appear and feel of the issues to return when the T20 World Cup is held subsequent 12 months in England.
And, the 20-year-old debutant Shree Charani did rather well in her maiden outing, delivering a dream spell of three.5-0-12-4 to arrange India’s win by displaying numerous self-discipline and focus to strangle the England batters.
England skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt (66) waged a lone battle whilst Indian spinners loved a cakewalk, with Deepti Sharma and Radha Yadav too chipping in with a few wickets every.
India: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Harleen Deol, Richa Ghosh (wk), Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Amanjot Kaur, Sneh Rana, Sayali Satghare, Deepti Sharma, Kranti Goud, Arundhati Reddy, Shree Charani, Radha Yadav.
England: Natalie Sciver-Brunt (c), Tammy Beaumont (wk), Sophia Dunkley, Amy Jones (wk), Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Alice Capsey, Charlie Dean, Paige Scholfield, Em Arlott, Lauren Bell, Sophie Ecclestone, Lauren Filer, Linsey Smith, Issy Wong.
Match begins at 11:00pm IST.
